If you’re reading this post chances are you’ve got young kids or you manage a group of employees and you want to protect them from harmful content on the Internet. This is a question I asked myself not too long ago and the best answer I could find was OpenDNS. The setup was quick and […]

Today, the face of online education will change. MIT and Harvard have announced that they will be collaborating on a new open source online educational infrastructure called edX. A report from MIT News states, “edX gives Harvard and MIT an unprecedented opportunity to dramatically extend our collective reach […]

The Facebook team have some big ambitions and those ambitions now include saving lives. You are now able to designate a status of “organ donor” in your Facebook profile. Many questions have arisen including, “how would your doctor know that you have chosen this status?” Well the fact is that your doctor won’t be trolling […]

Watch out Cable companies, Roku is now bringing the best of British TV to their streaming devices. For a relatively small fee equating to about $2 per month you can get access to many British series in full or in part.

In my most recent search to improve my landscape photographs I came across Trey Ratcliff’s website. Mr. Ratcliff runs a very popular travel website and blog with some absolutely amazing photographs. He even goes as far as sharing his techniques which are definitely not for the faint […]

If you are running out of disk space on your computer’s hard drive you are not alone. Recently I found myself in this predicament due to my over zealous photography habit. My music collection was also part of the problem. I explored a number of different options including USB and Firewire connected devices. I found […]

Writing a review about the netTALK Duo was easy. I could sum up my experience with the Duo in three words: “it just works.” And not only does it just work but is so simple to set up I had the thing from being in the box to […]

I was recently told of an interesting Infographic depicting the telecom industry in the US. It was published by a company called Axvoice and shows that the average citizen spends around $600 per year on a land-line and $400 per year on cell phone fees. The diagram goes […]

For the past two weeks I have developed a method to help me achieve a greater sense of focus. I want to share my method with you today because I believe it could help you as well. I plan to keep this post relatively short as finding your personal focus shouldn’t become a monumental task. […]

Remember the 90s? Modems, Windows for Workgroups and Netscape Navigator? Well the user “SquirrelMonkeyCom” on YouTube has done a fantastic job of creating a video called “If Facebook were invented in the 90s.” This video is a blast and is a great way to reminisce about the early 90s […]

Another tax season is upon us and as we approach April the thought of paying the tax-man looms ever closer. Vancouver Gadgets is here to give you some options as we approach the inevitable date of April 30th. For some of us the idea of paying taxes may be a welcome routine especially if there […]

The Sony PS VITA is a gorgeous little gaming device and it feels nice in your hands. It just fits. The controls are in the perfect place and the graphics as usual are amazing. And of course the game play is second-to-none. This unit has everything you […]

I talk a lot about Apple on my site but I’d like to branch out a little more to focus on what’s happening with other mobile vendors. I’d specifically like to look at Android, BlackBerry and Windows Phone to see what’s going on there. From my perspective I see RIM making a lot of strategic […]

A recent report from the Globe & Mail discussed the issue of the always-online future and the impacts it could have on our children. I have mixed feelings about excessive screen time because I don’t want to appear to be a hypocrite when after all I work […]

I’ve been updating my resume and professional profiles over the past few days and have found a plethora of information that I’d like to share with you my beloved reader. In updating my resume I thought I would take a “reverse-engineering” type of approach and search for the top mistakes people make when designing their […]

It’s time for Vancouver Gadgets to add to the Apple Marketing Hype Machine (AMHM) and endorse the iPad3 as one of the coolest gadgets to hit the market for 2012. The hype leading up to the launch had over 1000 articles speculating about the device, Apple and Tim Cook himself.

Sometimes I wish that technology would slow down. Sometimes I daydream about living in the 1960s or even further back, thousands of years ago. Some people say that technology has made our lives better and easier, that it has connected us with hundreds of people we would never have met otherwise. Well if that’s the […]

There’s always a stream of new gadgets and electronics becoming available but what are the hot ones this winter? I’ll look at some of the must have tech gear in this post. I’ll be looking at the TouchSquid universal TV remote tablet, the Orbotix Sphero robotic ball gaming system for smartphones, and the Wacom Bamboo […]

Honestly, I have never been all that paranoid about my privacy or the privacy or others. I don’t really post anything on the Internet that could be considered all that bad. I have nothing to hide. I don’t do anything illegal so why should I be concerned? The privacy thing got me thinking about the […]

Caffeine was proven to be a harmful substance as far back as 1998 but still we continue to ignore the facts. Stephen Cherniske authored a book called Caffeine Blues that went into detail about the problems that can stem from caffeine abuse but it appears the drug is […]

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